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live now to chris ewokor in nigeria with the latest on this. chris, just talk us through the international reaction. there has been quite a bit of condemnation today, hasn t there? today, hasn t there? yes, it has looked like today, hasn t there? yes, it has looked like a today, hasn t there? yes, it has looked like a lot today, hasn t there? yes, it has looked like a lot of today, hasn t there? yes, it has looked like a lot of pressure - today, hasn t there? yes, it has i looked like a lot of pressure being piled on the coup leaders in and i share. this evening, we are hearing that france has also suspended financial and other aid to niger. it is a result of the coop in that country. it is similar to the eu s position. the eu has suspended aid, both financial and military aid. the united states secretary of state, antony blinken, earlier threatened that the country risk also having millions of dollars in aid being suspended because of the coup. the strongest re ....
chris ewokor in nigeria has the details for us. there have been some it s looked like a lot of pressure being piled on the coup leaders in nigeria this evening. we re hearing that france has also suspended financial and other aides to niger with immediate effect. and this is as a result of the coup and political development in that country. and it s also similar to the eu s position. the eu has suspended aid, both financial and military aid. the united states secretary of state, antony blinken, had earlier threatened that the country risked also having millions of dollars in aid be suspended because of the coup. and the strongest reaction yet we ve gotten is from the african union, which had given the military in niger 15 days maximum to return to the barracks and restore constitutional democracy. they have also called for the immediate release of president bazoum, who at the moment we know are still being held by the military. and just in terms of the western aid and t ....
were on the current situation there. the last coup that took place in 2010 was a relatively good coup. it removed a president who had decided he wanted to stay on for a third term, probably indefinitely in the military, intervened, removed him, and then managed a transition to civilian rule. this coup is exactly the opposite. there was a duly elected, democratically, popularly chosen president who has been removed by the military, it seems primarily for their own individual interest. so the reaction from both african countries and western countries is not entirely surprising. but there s a dilemma because, if western countries come down very heavily on the new regime, there is a risk that they will turn to moscow. they will look to wagner to come in and protect them. but not to do that encourages further coups in other countries. and the key factor is what african neighbours of niger are doing. and there, the african union, as your correspondent said, has been very toug ....
it s james in the studio in westminster. and it s chris in westminster too. so, the reason you were speaking to the labour leader, sir keir starmer, chris, was because he has made a big u turn today. yes. so this is on what he calls his green prosperity plan. this is the idea of throwing quite a lot of public money into kind of turbo charging what he thinks are the kind of industries of the future that might have a kind of green tinge to them. but they re also about, he hopes, providing the well paid jobs of the future, the industries of the future. two and a half years ago, he said labour would spend in government £28 billion a year on that. that was diluted in the summer of last year to £28 billion a year by the second half of a first labour term. so that would be sort of mid 2027, if they were to win the election and only if they thought it was affordable relative to their economic rules. last few weeks, quite frankly, they ve been in a complete mess about it and n ....
will: affections news alert. u.s. carrying out retail tourist strikes on dozens of iran-backs targets in iraq and syria. rachel: hours after three u.s. soldiers in a drone attack in jordan last night. pete: trey yingst is live in tel aviv with the latest. trey. reporter: good morning. overnight the united states struck 85 different targets in iraq and syria. this is in response to the drone attack last weekend that killed three american soldiers. according to u.s. central command, there are both control centers and weapon storage facilities hit and some affiliated directly with iran s revolutionary guard forces and other with iran-backed militias and national security council spokesman john kirby saying this. i want to repeat what i said in my otay mesaing comments opening comments, these responses began tonight, they re not going to end tonight. there ll be additional responses and actions we ll take. reporter: the biden administration is looking to send a messa ....